Billy Joel Quotes
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman -
Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
Ralph Norman -
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
Sam Waterston -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
Earl Butz -
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell -
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Joanne Rowling -
The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
Pankaj Mishra -
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
Fatou Bensouda
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Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
Luvvie Ajayi -
Music is interior decoration.
Wayne Shorter -
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell -
The label didn't want me to do this look. But cutting my hair, it made me stand out as an artist. I don't care who likes it-this is me.
Rihanna -
Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
Lillian Gish -
No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel